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At the most critical moment of becoming a god, Zhao Fuyi fell into the illusion of inner demons.
"Zhao Xiu, step forward to test your spiritual roots."
Hearing this strange yet familiar name, it took Zhao Fuyi a long time to come back to his senses and found her standing in front of the Tianyan Sect's mountain gate.
A ray of golden light soared into the sky from the crowd, shining like the golden light of the morning sun, astonishing everyone.
"Metallic single spiritual root, rooted in...Nine!"
"It's only a little bit away from the golden spirit body."
The golden light in the sky lingered for a long time. Zhao Fuyi looked through the crowd and saw the little girl bathed in the golden light.
He has a thin body and a cold face, as if he is born with pride and has become unsmiling at a young age.
She had almost forgotten that her original name was Zhao Xiu, and she was just an abandoned baby of unknown origin in Zhaojia Village who was adopted by an old Taoist priest from the fourth level of Qi training in the back mountain Taoist temple.
The Taoist leader was already old, so when she was six years old, he took her to the gate of Tianyan Sect and detected her astonishing single spiritual root.
That year, no one else had higher qualifications than her. As soon as she joined the sect, she attracted everyone's attention.
The steps to ascend to the immortal world opened, and the children who had received the wooden plaques rushed up the steps. Only Zhao Xiu walked at the end, looking young and mature.
Zhao Fuyi followed Zhao Xiu and watched her calmly deal with the illusion on the steps to immortality.
Zhao Xiu is very smart and can always find flaws and get through easily.
"Who are you? Why have you been following me?"
Halfway through the journey, six-year-old Zhao Xiu suddenly turned around, looked at Zhao Fuyi, and asked fiercely.
Zhao Fuyi was stunned. He didn't expect Zhao Xiu to see her. She just passed through someone else's body, like a phantom, and no one noticed her.
"Maybe... it's the inner demon."
This time it was Zhao Xiu who was stunned, "I haven't entered Taoism yet, how can I have inner demons?"
Zhao Xiu was precociously intelligent. He had been with the old Taoist priest since he was a child, and he knew more about Taoism than others.
"Don't follow me, or I will kill you first when I enter the Tao!"
Zhao Xiu raised his hand and pointed, his eyes full of anger, turned around, and continued upwards with firm steps.
Zhao Fuyi stood on the steps, watching the little Zhao Xiu go up one step at a time, one step at a time... straight up the ninety-nine Qingyun Staircase.
So small, yet so tall.
The corners of Zhao Fuyi's mouth rose, feeling relieved and proud.
Time began to fly very fast, Zhao Fuyi followed Zhao Xiu and watched her enter the inner door.
Entering the Tao overnight, stepping into the first level of Qi training.
He became proficient in talismans in the middle stage of Qi training and defeated old disciples in the late stage of Qi training in public.
On that day, Zhao Xiu was high-spirited and dazzling amidst the roaring mountains and tsunami.
She enjoyed the feeling of being in the spotlight and was intoxicated with it.
On the day when Zhao Xiu entered the late stage of Qi training, the old Taoist who raised her died.
"Xiu'er, don't waste your qualifications and talents. Don't be dragged down by irrelevant things. Only by focusing on nothing but hard work can you achieve immortality."
In the back hill of the Taoist temple, twelve-year-old Zhao Xiu knelt in front of the unnamed tombstone. He did not cry or make trouble, but was quiet, without sadness or joy.
It's just that her eyes are getting deeper and deeper, and the darkness can't cover the light in her eyes.
"Inner Demon, are you immortal?"
In the past few years, Zhao Xiu had always known about Zhao Fuyi's existence, but this was the first time he took the initiative to talk to Zhao Fuyi.
Zhao Fuyi looked at the tombstone and said nothing.
"What's the point of living forever if you're just unknown?"
Zhao Fuyi opened his mouth to speak, but Zhao Xiu had already stood up, took a tattered formation atlas left to her by the old Taoist priest, and left the Taoist temple and Zhaojiacun using the flying magic weapon.
He didn't even look down.
Zhao Xiu was born with weak relationships and a high heart.
Ever since she could remember, the villagers had called her a bastard, but she had always dismissed them.
Just because she has seen the methods of the Immortal family and the magical powers of Taoists since she was a child, and understands that most of them are just mortals.
The old Taoist priest said that she was not a mortal.
Zhao Xiu's eyes looked toward the sky. Only the swans and cranes could stand beside her.
The voice of mortals is the cry of ants.
Once she left, she never came back.
After returning to Tianyan Sect from Zhaojiacun, Zhao Xiu rejected Tianjian Peak's olive branch and switched to Tiangang Peak to practice formation.
A young man should have high ambitions and compete for glory in the thousands of miles of sky.
Zhao Xiu forgot about food and sleep, focusing on studying the formation. During the Qi training period, he was unstoppable and won the first place with a crushing force.
He never became a disciple, but asked the sect master for the opportunity to study in Wanfa Hall.
After that, Zhao Xiu's name has always been the first among his peers in the formation courtyard.
"Why is it Zhao Xiu again? She is too powerful!"
"How can I survive if I get perfect scores in the array examination?"
When the results of the monthly array examinations are released, Zhao Xiu always likes to stand in the corridor and listen to the praises of his fellow brothers and sisters.
Zhao Fuyi silently looked at Zhao Xiu, who stood out from the crowd. The light was so compelling that he didn't even have any friends.
“The moon waxes and wanes, the water overflows and the people lose.”
Zhao Fuyi couldn't help but speak, interrupting Zhao Xiu's interest.
"Inner demon, please stop messing with my heart!"
Zhao Xiu had a sullen face, knocked Zhao Fuyi's body apart, and left with the formation disk in his arms.
"well……"
Zhao Fuyi let out a long sigh. The wind was warm and the sun was shining brightly at this time, but he didn't know that the rain would come at any time, just like the rainy season, which was drizzling but never sunny.
Zhao Xiu's glory in Wanfa Hall only lasted for one year. It was not that she fell out of the first place, but because she never fell behind.
"This guy Wei Chong actually took second place in the formation. He was last in the rankings last month."
"It's a bit unbelievable. Let's go for a walk and ask him for advice."
Zhao Xiu stood in the rain, soaked by the rain, and felt cold and heavy all over.
Her name is still at the top of the list, but everyone seems to be invisible.
"When did second place become something to be proud of?"
Zhao Fuyi held an umbrella for Zhao Xiu, but like her, the umbrella was just a phantom and could not protect Zhao Xiu from the wind and rain.
"It's because you are so good that they can no longer see the hope of transcendence. They have given up and have become accustomed to it, so they have turned a blind eye and turned a blind eye."
Zhao Xiu clenched his fist, "Is it wrong to be excellent?!"
"It's not wrong to be excellent, but your heart is wrong."
Zhao Fuyi looked at Zhao Xiu seriously.
"I'm right! You inner demon, get out of here!"
Zhao Xiu was angry and left in a hurry. When he returned, he swallowed the Foundation Establishment Pill.
At that time, Zhao Xiu was sixteen years old.
He raced against time to build the foundation, just to break the Tianyan Sect's record of eleven years of foundation building.
He acts impulsively, but has a courageous determination to move forward. Fortunately, he is favored by God.
After ten years of foundation building, the Taoist platform is of first grade.
Zhao Xiu thought that she would be the center of attention again, but after the whole sect was announced, everyone's reaction...
"Zhao Xiu? That's not strange. It would be strange if she couldn't break the record!"
Later, this sentence became what Zhao Xiu heard most often, and it also became a shackle that she could not break.
When going on a mission and encountering a life-or-death crisis, everyone can escape, but she can't because she is Zhao Xiu.
In the three-sect competition, everyone could lose when encountering opponents from all sides, but she couldn't, because she was Zhao Xiu.
Even the time for the pill was 'arranged' by someone, and it must be before the age of thirty-five, just because she was Zhao Xiu.
Zhao Xiu can only be excellent, can only stand at the top, can only keep breaking records, and can only be a 'good boy'.
Zhao Xiu secretly cried. She felt very tired. She suddenly began to miss the Taoist temple in Zhaojiacun.
"Inner demon, what should I do?"
"Don't worry about other people's eyes. Only you have the final say on who you are. In fact..."
"Yes! I don't care about their looks at all!"
Zhao Xiu rolled up her sleeves and went out, and Zhao Fuyi slowly uttered the second half of the sentence.
"...There is nothing wrong with sometimes rebelling and failing. I wish I had understood earlier."
At the age of thirty-five, Zhao Xiu formed an elixir, which became a first-class elixir, and his Tao name was Fuyi.
When it's over, I brushed my clothes away without leaving a single leaf on my body.
Zhao Xiuzi reminded himself that the mind is as calm as water, untainted by the hustle and bustle, fame and fortune are fleeting.
Zhao Fuyi discovered that she was the kind of person who said she didn't care the more she wanted something in her heart.
Flick your clothes to deceive yourself.
After forming the elixir, Zhao Xiu seemed to be a different person. He was calm and indifferent. He was obsessed with the formation and did not care about worldly affairs. He completely closed himself in the world of the formation.
Gain joy and satisfaction in the continuous improvement of formation path.
However, when she heard that Li Jiuchuan, who had five spiritual roots, had been building a foundation for ten years and was only a few months behind her, she was inevitably shocked.
I also saw Li Jiuchuan being praised by the sect leader, and the whole sect was hotly discussing it, and I felt sour in my heart.
"When did the Five Spiritual Roots become something worth showing off?"
Zhao Xiu practiced harder and harder, and she was able to build a famous car even if she was working behind closed doors.
Less than two hundred years old, Zhao Xiu successfully gave birth to a baby and became the leader of Tiangang Peak.
On the day of the ceremony, it was deserted, not because no one came, but because it was full of guests and friends, which made Zhao Xiu feel "deserted".
She could see that those smiles and respects were not deep in the heart and were superficial.
She is aloof, cold and arrogant, and is not good at making friends. She has always been like this.
Along the way, the only two sisters who were most tolerant and supportive of her were the sect master and the supreme elder.
Due to the ghost tide in the underworld, Zhao Xiu was expelled from the sect by the Supreme Elder and went to Wentian Island to preside over the coordination of all the allied forces' formations.
After studying formations for many years, Zhao Xiu initially had no idea how far she had left the formation monks in the world. When the 'small formation' she was accustomed to aroused everyone's admiration and surprise, Zhao Xiu's calm heart was disturbed again.
On the sea of underworld, Zhao Xiu has repeatedly achieved extraordinary feats and is at the forefront of everything.
Where there is Zhao Xiu, there is Zhao Xiu's formation, and the Allies will be unfavorable wherever they go!
Zhao Xiu was in high spirits and scolded Fang Qiu.
It's a pity that Zhao Xiu only has one person after all, and the ghost tide is endless and endless.
The others are not her, and she also gets tired sometimes.
In the end, the Allied forces were defeated. Faced with the coming surging ghost tide, the Allied forces wanted to retreat.
Zhao Xiu is unwilling, dissatisfied, and unwilling!
She stayed alone. Even if everyone left, she would stick to Wentian Island.
Because she is Zhao Xiu!
"You know, there's no use staying."
The sea breeze was salty and wet, Zhao Fuyi whispered to Zhao Xiudao.
Zhao Xiu looked gloomy and kept waving his sleeves to plant the cumbersome formation flags everywhere on the island, focused and stubborn.
"If you don't try it, how will you know it's useless? I, Zhao Xiu, have always had a Taoist heart as solid as a rock, so the inner demons can't even think of bewitching me!"
Zhao Fuyi was silent, and could only watch Zhao Xiu fail, and even take advantage of Li Jiuchuan's future.
After returning to the clan, Zhao Xiu lost his mind and locked himself in the Tiangang Peak Hall. Every time he thought of Li Jiuchuan's appearance when he was dying, he felt uneasy and guilty.
She has always been one person, one person suffers and one eats it, one person is sweet and one person has character.
This was the first time she had harmed someone else because of herself. She tried her best to make up for it, but she still couldn't comfort herself.
Zhao Xiu's 'retreat' was broken by the Supreme Elder, who gave her a child to teach.
After accepting Li Shenzhi, Zhao Xiu was forced to accept Mu Wushuang, who caused the fight between Cang Huo and Ling Guanghan.
Zhao Xiu had never worshiped a master along the way, and even if she was treated like a master, she rarely got close to him.
She didn't know how to be a master, so she could only teach with all her strength on the one hand, and prevent her regrets from happening to her two disciples, such as the ghost tide.
Zhao Xiu always believed that she was not strong enough, otherwise the things that happened later would not have happened.
Therefore, she has extremely high standards for Li Shenzhi and Mu Wushuang, even higher than she did back then.
The completely different temperaments of the two disciples also caused Zhao Xiu to suffer a lot.
Zhao Xiu is a bit paranoid and likes perfection. Li Shenzhi and Mu Wushuang do not fit her expectations of what her apprentices should look like.
But the two disciples were in awe and admiration for her.
Zhao Fuyi watched from the side, feeling bitter in his heart that the two disciples were still enjoying the meal even though they had suffered so much. They tried their best but could not make her happy.
She's really not a good teacher.
Later, Zhao Xiu accepted Tang Weimian and He Wangchen. In fact, the disciple she wanted most at that time was Lu Nazhi.
When Zhao Xiuzai saw Lu Nanzhi for the first time, he felt like his young self.
Indifferent, focused, clear-cut and unfocused.
Zhao Xiu's eyes still couldn't see the dust at the bottom, only Lu Nanzhi standing at the pinnacle of that generation.
In the windy stream, the person who was ignored by Zhao Xiu was seen by Zhao Fuyi this time.
It turned out that at that time, Jiang Yuebai's eyes looked at her, just like her disciples, full of admiration.
"Zhao Xiu, have you ever seen her?"
When coming out of Yinfeng Stream, Zhao Fuyi asked Zhao Xiu.
"who?"
Zhao Fuyi shook his head. He couldn't avoid what was coming, and there was no need to hide.
Later, when all the pride of the entire clan was shattered, Zhao Xiu suddenly realized.
Time was frozen in a dark space, and Zhao Xiu faced Zhao Fuyi, who looked exactly like her.
"I'm the inner demon, right?"
Zhao Fuyi looked at Zhao Xiu, watching time rewind on her, all the way back to the way Zhao Xiu was when she was a child.
The little Zhao Xiu's eyes showed unwillingness and stubbornness, "Are you here to kill me?"
Zhao Fuyi lowered her eyes and thought for a moment, then bent her unyielding waist, half-kneeling in front of the little Zhao Xiu, and looked calmly into Zhao Xiu's eyes.
"I want to make peace with you."
"Make peace?" Zhao Xiu opened his eyes in disbelief.
Zhao Fuyi nodded and raised his hand to tuck Zhao Xiu's messy hair behind his ears.
"You are me. Even though you fail, even though you are not perfect, you are still an indispensable and extremely real part of me. No one can be perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. As long as they change, it will be fine."
"There is no need to dwell on the failures of the past. When you dream back at midnight, you will torture yourself with your past stupidity. The past has become an unchangeable fact, just like I know what the outcome will be, but I still can't change your decision."
"So, I want to make peace with you and accept you as stubborn and imperfect. Can I...can I hug you?"
Zhao Xiu bit her lip with tears in her eyes, clenched her fists and became stiff.
Zhao Fuyi's eyes were also filled with mist, and he opened his arms to Zhao Xiu, embracing his ignorant and imperfect self into his arms, and reconciled with himself.
Zhao Fuyi let Zhao Xiu go, and Zhao Xiu let Zhao Fuyi go.
Only when you let yourself go can you let yourself go.
Inner demons can also be turned into the force that drives oneself forward. Don't people all grow from their mistakes?
Zhao Xiu wiped away her tears with her fists and looked at Zhao Fuyi and asked.
"What kind of person do you want to be in the future?"
Zhao Fuyi thought carefully, led Zhao Xiu to stand up, and looked up at the stars shining in the dark night.
"I want to be someone who, like the Big Dipper in the sky, can guide those who are willing to raise their heads and fight for their lives no matter how time passes."
Zhao Xiuxiao said, "Then you must first become a powerful figure before you are qualified!"
Zhao Fuyi also smiled, "I will."
"Zhao Fuyi, I hope you can really do it in the future. When things are done, Fuyi will leave, not for fame and fortune, but just for... a pure heart and an untainted Taoist mind."
"It will too."
Zhao Fuyi and Zhao Xiu looked at each other and smiled. The little Zhao Xiu turned into a ray of light and merged with Zhao Fuyi.
The sound of heavenly calamity dissipated in her ears, Zhao Fuyi succeeded in transforming into a god, and above her head was the sky...
The stars are dipping towards the north, and the birds are heading towards the phoenix!
